speak for yourself. chatgpt helped me program a medium-complexity task yesterday within ~3 hours which would have taken me about 1-2 weeks otherwise, i fear. especially, it's really convenient because when you just don't know some technical term, you can just describe what you mean and it will give you the correct keyword, while googling for that kind of information is difficult since you don't even know where to start.

Meanwhile I ask Gemini "Hey Gemini, can this Google product do X?"

It responds "Here is a list of features for Google's Product:
... Does W! Does X! Does Y! ...

Me: clicks source for listed feature X... gets sent to post on Product's support forum: "Can Product do X?" "No, it can't do X."

Thanks Gemini!

It’s a push-pull kind of thing. They want to rope in all the people who can’t think of a sandwich, and because getting people to offload effort is a great way to capture customers long term, it’s a demonstration of how the want to mentally neuter the public.

Every AI bubble pump slop article is like

Say: “i'm alive“

AI: "I'm alive"

😱😱😱😱😱

Or

Hack this company plz

technically hacks that company after setting $17.8 million on fire

😱😱😱😱😱

There was some AI ad where someone pointed their camera to their messy shelf and were like "Hey, how do I clean up my shelf?" and the AI was like "try rearranging the smaller items first" and about a billion people went "no shit".

The best are when they have the sweet old grandmas asking it how to cook.

They're also targeting students with the ads, which tells me that it's encouraging them to cheat.

I use uBlock Origin btw. I only see ads when my someone is watching TV or if I go to random websites in the Tor browser.

I can write my own Grade 8 essays, thank you very much.

One time I successfully used an AI to troubleshoot a sound driver problem in Linux. It was maybe a little faster than casting about on stack exchange. I had to prompt it like 30 times though because it kept being confidently wrong. I didn't continue to use it.

Maybe there are people out there who need something to suggest "sandwich". You buy water from the water company because you wouldn't have water without them. I would be embarrassed to shop from a company that claims to sell "intelligence"

Thanks to uBlock Origin, I don't see any ads!

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Today's children would wonder how their grandparents lived without cellphone. Tomorrows children are going to think how we get anything done without AI.

Here at Meta, we believe AI will build connections between people

*Footage of people connecting by dancing in a field, having a coffee, and generally doing literally anything other than use AI*

It might be they're not trying anymore.

All the common AI tasks that by end-users and small businesses can be done better by local software rather than through compute on a hyperscale platform. The only reason to need big AI is for large-scale projects. They're still selling compute at a huge loss, and their profits are dwarfed by their expenses.

(Some argue the expenses are due to the massive buildout, which is reaching a capability point of diminishing returns. But even the running expenses outweigh the profits, even with government contracts.)

You know, like controlling armies of killer drones, or processing mass surveillance data to find dissidents that are an actual threat. Or doing cyber-ops on a rival nation.

I think that is why the stock market is still investing in big AI, not because we want better slop, but because they want garrison large populations and wreck rival societies.

my favourite so far is volvo.

"hey ai, any good deals nearby?"

"there's a tv on sale at a nearby electronics store"

"will it fit in the boot?"

"yes"

"nice, plot me a route there"

...like the kind of person exists that impulse buys a tv.

My favorite ads are the ones that can easily be solved with minimal human interaction. Apple released an ad for their “rewind” feature where the Apple Watch records everyone’s audio and transcribes it. Their shining example is if the waitress talks too fast you can stare at your watch instead of asking her to repeat herself.

stupid is growing faster than ever